What are you working on? v6

[cas97]

[QUOTE=adamjon858;31379290]Pick your favorite 2 design s(#1-5):

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/hVdI8.png[/IMG]

Going to do 5 more tomorrow and then pick the top 3.[/QUOTE]

I'd have to say numbers 1 and 2. 3 and 5 don't really have the "City" part in them.

[Shiv*]

4

[Jorgon]

2

[Shiv*]

*opps*

[Scoob]

2 and 4 :smile:

[:awesome:]

2

[TehWhale]

2

[adamjon858]

Played around with 5 as it really didn't have anything about the city part:

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/8BC0s.png[/IMG]

[BrettJay]

[QUOTE=TerabyteS_;31375405]I have a bit of feedback:
The green used for the high-lit elements on the nav doesn't fit with the rest, if I were you I'd use the green from the background.
The green of the logo is another shade of green compared to the green you've used in the design. Consider changing one of the two to fit the other (I suggest the logo's).
You need to add left and bottom margin to that image, around 10 px. You can't have text touching the image like that.
Try having more horizontal padding than vertical padding. Since the shape of the container is a rectangle, that might help preserve the harmony.
Also, if I were you, I'd make the paragraph heading text bigger and use, once again, the same color as the background.[/QUOTE]

I agree and disagree with parts of the feedback. For one, I really don't think repeating the background colour elsewhere in the design is necessarily a great idea; certainly, consolidate the different shades of green used, but you want content to stick out and come off the background. Now sure, the white container does that, but it feels if you're going to make the accent colour the same as the background some of the impact and entire reason for using an accent colour (to draw attention) will be mitigated because the colour blends in with the background.

Rest of feedback is fairly good.

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[QUOTE=adamjon858;31379290]Pick your favorite 2 design s(#1-5):

[img]http://i.imgur.com/hVdI8.png[/img]

Going to do 5 more tomorrow and then pick the top 3.[/QUOTE]

Hey not bad, nice range of different logos there. I'd say I like 2 and the one just above the best. The pastel colours are nice, but they're lacking a tad bit of contrast (that applies more to the one above than #2, but then again, the two different colours of City and Chatter are different enough from the blue shape they're inside; I suppose noticing the colour differentiation between the two words isn't as important as just being able to read it, in which case it's fine).

[adamjon858]

Thanks BrettJay!

Yeah, I didn't spend any time picking colors, I just quickly picked two that had enough of a contrast to be readable. More the overall logo concept that matters. I did #3 solely because I know the client well enough to know they are going to like that style even though the "3d bubble" effect is so overdone these days.

[Galago]

I quite like #1, actually. They're all pretty solid, though.
What do you guys think of my WIP website? It's pretty standard, just wanted some critique or a heads-up if anyone notices any glaring problems.
[url]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2319552/Kevin%20Johnson/index.html[/url]

[Weiss]

[QUOTE=adamjon858;31379290]Pick your favorite 2 design s(#1-5):

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/hVdI8.png[/IMG]

Going to do 5 more tomorrow and then pick the top 3.[/QUOTE]
I'd say 2 looks like a clear winner. 4 makes me imagine it's a closed captioning service :v:

[tagnara]

[QUOTE=Xeon06;31367049]Who was the guy from FP that found an exploit in PHP with a certain constant? Was it one of turb's alts? Does anyone have that topic handy?[/QUOTE]

I didn't find it, I just reposted it: [url]http://www.exploringbinary.com/php-hangs-on-numeric-value-2-2250738585072011e-308/[/url]

[RELAXiN]

[QUOTE=adamjon858;31379935]Played around with 5 as it really didn't have anything about the city part:

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/8BC0s.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]

I like this one the most and two.

[editline]28th July 2011[/editline]

[IMG]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29169308/Muck%20Arounds/hcn.png[/IMG]
Just mucking around, the logo came out pretty bad thou.

[TerabyteS_]

[QUOTE=RELAXiN;31383138]I like this one the most and two.

[editline]28th July 2011[/editline]

[IMG]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29169308/Muck%20Arounds/hcn.png[/IMG]
Just mucking around, the logo came out pretty bad thou.[/QUOTE]Try not using the same font you used for titles or other entities in the page as well for the content. Maybe go for a sans-serif alternative because it creates a nice contrast with the other font. Another thing I'm not sure about is all the grain and noise you can see mainly in the content part. You could try to reduce that. And also I think you should have more padding on the content area.

[editline]28th July 2011[/editline]

[QUOTE=BrettJay;31380523]I agree and disagree with parts of the feedback. For one, I really don't think repeating the background colour elsewhere in the design is necessarily a great idea; certainly, consolidate the different shades of green used, but you want content to stick out and come off the background. Now sure, the white container does that, but it feels if you're going to make the accent colour the same as the background some of the impact and entire reason for using an accent colour (to draw attention) will be mitigated because the colour blends in with the background.

Rest of feedback is fairly good.[/QUOTE]Thanks for the... feedback over the feedback :v:

[BrettJay]

[QUOTE=TerabyteS_;31383726]Try not using the same font you used for titles or other entities in the page as well for the content. Maybe go for a sans-serif alternative because it creates a nice contrast with the other font. Another thing I'm not sure about is all the grain and noise you can see mainly in the content part. You could try to reduce that. And also I think you should have more padding on the content area.

[editline]28th July 2011[/editline]

Thanks for the... feedback over the feedback :v:[/QUOTE]

Haha wasn't really for your benefit, I was just saying what I agreed and disagreed with; giving Crhem van der B a second opinion. [sp]I said that last part to be nice, not because I was giving you feedback[/sp] :v:

[RELAXiN]

How about this:
[IMG]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29169308/Muck%20Arounds/hcn3.png[/IMG]

[BrettJay]

[QUOTE=RELAXiN;31384246]How about this:
[IMG]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29169308/Muck Arounds/hcn3.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]

Not bad; logo seems out of place with the rest of the design (and also reminds me of that Home Improvement television show).

Content area is quite plain because it's just full of dummy lorem ipsum filler; which doesn't really tell us anything as to the hierarchy of information on the page; at one stage or another you're going to need to decide how to layout information on the page (and what information), so that should start sooner rather than later. Try to construct short, readable paragraphs, make use of headers. I can't read Latin, but even if those paragraphs were in English I wouldn't read it all :v:

[QUOTE=Weiss;31382218]I'd say 2 looks like a clear winner. 4 makes me imagine it's a closed captioning service :v:[/QUOTE]
... for buildings :v:

[hzy]

[QUOTE=RELAXiN;31384246]How about this:
[IMG]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29169308/Muck%20Arounds/hcn3.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]

I'd increase the line-height of the body text to about 150%

I'm also not sure about the font selection... it's a bit over the place... simple sans serif for the body, fairly narrow sans serif in the logo, a bold sans serif for the navigation elements, and a serif for the footer. I would try to consolidate that down to maybe 2 families, it will make everything feel far more consistent.

[Alcapwne]

[QUOTE=adamjon858;31379290]Pick your favorite 2 design s(#1-5):

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/hVdI8.png[/IMG]

Going to do 5 more tomorrow and then pick the top 3.[/QUOTE]

I like 1 & 4 best

I don't really like 2 because the font is too chunky and I think the symbol is a bit too complicated, but that's just me

[RELAXiN]

[IMG]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29169308/Muck%20Arounds/hvc5.png[/IMG]
Looks better or worse?

[Weiss]

[QUOTE=BrettJay;31384316]
... for buildings :v:[/QUOTE]
Buildings are all deaf, they need it!

On-topic, writing a stream page that'll cache my Steam and Twitter status for five minutes, so I'll only be fetching them once every five and even then only if someone's trying to get them. Then I just gotta work out where this'll fit into the new design. Probably going to rework the post list part to be two columns, with the post reading page being single-column - then I have a title-only post list and the Steam/Twitter icons on the right. That'll also make the previews less wide, thus making them taller so they look longer and more content-filled! Maybe it'll almost look like I wrote something worth reading!

[TerabyteS_]

[QUOTE=RELAXiN;31384539][IMG]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29169308/Muck Arounds/hvc5.png[/IMG]
Looks better or worse?[/QUOTE]Yes, better, but I'd flip the font combination (use the font you used on paragraphs for the logo and vice versa.

Also fun fact, Laika is not the name of the dog but the name of her race, her real name was [B]Kudryavka[/B]. :eng101:

[BrettJay]

[QUOTE=TerabyteS_;31385235]Yes, better, but I'd flip the font combination (use the font you used on paragraphs for the logo and vice versa.[/QUOTE]

Narrow font for paragraphs at ~13px?.. That's probably not a great idea.

[editline]oh and[/editline]

Serifs are usually great for paragraphs as long as there's enough spacing to keep words and letters legible and scannable. The logo font is a bit more stylized; makes much more sense to use that sparingly for a logo and not slap it on paragraphs of text at small sizes.

[editline]oh, and and[/editline]

[QUOTE=RELAXiN;31384539][IMG]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29169308/Muck%20Arounds/hvc5.png[/IMG]
Looks better or worse?[/QUOTE]
Looking a lot better, a structure is emerging. Consider what appropriate further actions users may want to perform if they read the first paragraph and decide they're on the right site, and then [url="http://boagworld.com/design/10-techniques-for-an-effective-call-to-action/"]construct some pertinent call to actions[/url] to make the process of getting the user where they may want to go as painless and simple as possible.

[Reagy]

Just got adsense up on tf2r.com, within 40 minutes of me adding it, it's already saying I've made 10p. \:v:/

[adamjon858]

I'm trying to do some 3D vector work (making skyscrapers for another citychatter logo).

I haven't done any 3D work in a while so I'm not sure if it's completely pointless to do this in Photoshop or what. I'm basically using a ton of lines coming out from vanishing points.

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/QWVIE.jpg[/IMG]

[TerabyteS_]

[QUOTE=adamjon858;31386878]I'm trying to do some 3D vector work (making skyscrapers for another citychatter logo).

I haven't done any 3D work in a while so I'm not sure if it's completely pointless to do this in Photoshop or what. I'm basically using a ton of lines coming out from vanishing points.

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/QWVIE.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]You should use a program made specifically for this Blender. Also Illustrator offers some good options for perspective drawing.

[Alcapwne]

[QUOTE=adamjon858;31386878]I'm trying to do some 3D vector work (making skyscrapers for another citychatter logo).

I haven't done any 3D work in a while so I'm not sure if it's completely pointless to do this in Photoshop or what. I'm basically using a ton of lines coming out from vanishing points.

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/QWVIE.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]

I think Illustrator has some 3d tools - you can just like take a rectangle and move it onto what they call a Perspective Grid (I think) and you can add vanishing points and horizon lines and whatnot

[adamjon858]

Almost ready to send this off to the client. Thanks a ton for the Illustrator tip, made my first little icon with it (last logo).

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/0CGEI.png[/IMG]

[b]Vote for your fave[/b]

1: [img]http://www.facepunch.com/fp/ratings/tick.png[/img]
2: [img]http://www.facepunch.com/fp/ratings/cross.png[/img]
3: [img]http://www.facepunch.com/fp/ratings/funny2.png[/img]
4: [img]http://www.facepunch.com/fp/ratings/winner.png[/img]
5: [img]http://www.facepunch.com/fp/ratings/zing.png[/img]
6: [img]http://www.facepunch.com/fp/ratings/information.png[/img]
7: [img]http://www.facepunch.com/fp/ratings/heart.png[/img]

[TerabyteS_]

[QUOTE=adamjon858;31388625]

[b]Vote for your fave[/b][/QUOTE]4 if you get rid of the CC in the bubble and the antennas on the taller palace.